You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
WAYLON JENNINGSNow, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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I’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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I’m old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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